Gold Rush

<p><span class="deck">Granddaddy of all desert mining discoveries was the Comstock Lode, which sent the Far West on a silver stampede to Nevada’s Washoe country a century ago.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> No city has more energetically obliterated the remnants of its past. And yet no city has a greater sense of its history.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> Americans have been doing just that since the days of the California gold rush—and we’re still not full</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">What human nature and the California gold rush tell us about crime in the inner city</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Save for the Civil War, what occurred after a carpenter glimpsed a flash of yellow 150 years ago in Northern California was the biggest story of the 19th century. Richard Reinhard examines what we think we know (and don’t) about the people who made it happen.</span></p>